Hopscotch Pips Quilt

Hi there! I’m Jennifer Jenkinson of That Girl… That Quilt and I am so excited to be back with my second Bake Shop project! When I first saw Sherbet Pips, I knew that I wanted to make a quilt with these adorable characters. My first Bake Shop quilt was a bit on the complicated side, so this time I decided to share a quilt that you can easily finish over a weekend or less if you are quick about it!

The design and construction are simple which really allows you to show off cute fabric, your favorite quilting method, and maybe even a new binding technique… 😉

Chain piecing make this quilt fly together and I chain pieced my blocks like this:

1. Sew the 10″ strips to one side of the square. Snip the thread between each block.

2. Sew the other 10″ strips to the other side of the square. Snip the thread between each block again.

3. Press the seams open
4. Repeat steps 1-3 with the 14″ strips on the other two sides of the square.

*If you have questions about chain piecing, you can find a great tutorial here.*

Making the sashing:

I constructed this quilt with vertical rows so you will be making 3 rows of sashing. Each row of sashing will use 5 13″ strips.

I wanted my little red squares to be scattered bursts of color floating in the white background. That’s completely a personal preference. To do this, I simply sewed the 2.5″ red squares randomly to some ends of the 13″ strips.

If you want a more uniform look, you can stitch the red squares in a consistent pattern… i.e. one red square stitched to one end of each 13″ strip.

Once you have 5 strips and the desired number of red squares sewn together, stitch the 5 strips end to end to form one row of sashing. Repeat this step 2 more times to complete your 3 rows of sashing.

Assembling your quilt top:

Referring to the sashing picture above, lay your blocks out 4 across x 5 down. Remember that we are assembling this quilt vertically. Once you like the layout, stitch your blocks together to form 4 rows of 5 blocks. Press the seams and lay the rows out again.

Depending on how many red squares you use in your sashing, your sashing strips might be a bit too long once sewn to the corresponding row of blocks. If this is the case, don’t panic! Before you open the unit to press, simply square the end of the strip even with the row of blocks as shown in the picture.

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